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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote |
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> On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > It's a feature, not a bug. <G> There's a news item being worked on in |
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> > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but it's |
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> > too new to have been archived yet. Here's a copy of the proposed news |
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> > item. |
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> (Quoting order changed.) |
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> Sorry, Walter, but I just couldn't let this go. Reading it hurt too much. |
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> English grammar has very few hard-and-fast rules, but one is absolutely |
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> sacrosanct: every verb agrees in number with its subject. If I'd been guilty |
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> of this at school I'd have earned myself a stiff rebuke: |
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I was merely quoting the post verbatim. Don't shoot the messanger. I |
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hereby volunteer you to join the Gentoo-dev list and help clean up the |
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grammar of the news item. It's currently undergoing technical changes, |
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and the draft has changed somewhat. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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